I have been looking forward to this morning and anxiously awaiting the announcement of several Children and Young Adult book awards. The Young Media Awards are like the Oscars for many librarians, including myself. The awards took place at the American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting at San Diego, California. Although there are many awards honored today, I was looking forward to finding out the winners for the Caldecott, Newberry, Morris, and of course the Michael L.Printz Award. You can find the other winners on the Association for Library Services to Children website and the Young Adult Library Services website (YALSA).

The Caldecott Medal was named in honor of Randolph Caldecott, who was a nineteenth-century English illustrator. The award is given annually by the Association for Library Service to Children to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.

Interrupting Chickenwritten and illustrated by David Ezra Stein The Newberry Medal was named in the honor of John Newberry, who was an eighteenth century British bookseller. Like the Caldecott, it is also awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.

The William C. Morris YA Debut Award was first awarded in 2009 by YALSA. The award is given to a debut book published by a first-time author writing for teens and celebrating impressive new voices in young adult literature.

The Michael L. Printz Award was named in the honor of Michael L. Printz, a school librarian in Topeaka, Kansas, who was a long-time active member of the Young Adult Library Services Association. The Michael L. Printz Award is an award given annually by the Young Adult Library Services Association to a book that exemplifies literary excellence in young adult literature.

Well, the library associations have spoken. What do you think of these book awards? Will you read the books that have won and have been honored? I, personally, was a little suprised by Ship Breaker winning the Printz. It's a well written book, however, I didn't find anything really exceptional about it. I do have most of the other books already on my tbr pile. I guess, I will post them up higher just to see what made them so special.

To tell you the honest truth I hadn't heard of Ship Breaker until the awards, the only one I've read from the honor list is Stolen, which I loved. I might read Please Ignore Vera Dietz, but we'll see. I think the Printz winner and honor books are usually not Teen favorites, but definitely librarian/adult favorites. You can't deny their literary worth though, I guess. BTW, I awarded your blog the "Stylish Blogger Award", see my blog for more info. http://www.nostalgiclibrarian.blogspot.com :)

Alison: I haven't read "The Cardturner" yet, but plan to. I also really enjoyed "Hush" and glad it was nominated.

Adriana: I do agree that most of the times the awards are more for librarians and adults. Although there are a few like "Looking for Alaska" that is embraced by teens and adults alike. Btw, thank you for the award!

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